PSYC2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder
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Excessive anxiety/worry more days than not for at least 6 months about a number or e. Individual finds it difficult to control the worry. Worry associated with motor tension and autonomic arousal (restlessness, fatigue, dif disturbance) Average clinical presentation 30 years after onset, chronic course. Individuals with gad: have significantly less tolerance for uncertainty than comparison subjects underestimate their ability to cope with difficult or ambiguous circumstances overestimate the likelihood of negative consequences. Early experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictable negative events may contribu presence of a biological or genetic vulnerability. In other anxiety disorders, the individual is avoiding the feared stimulus. The avoidance theory of worry - borkovec, alcaine and behar (2004) Worry is a negative, verbal linguistic (as opposed to imaginal) activity. , difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep tribute to the development of gad particularly in the uch. When we worry, we are talking to ourselves in anxious ways.
